Hey folks, Brian Cooley, I'm in a 2010 Ford Taurus HSO with the latest ford sync, Sony-
branded, hard drive-based audio and nav head unit. The reason is, I'm going to give you a
quick how-to on ripping audio to that hard drive, you got 10 gig available to you and
managing what’s on there once you do fill it up.
First of all, you go to put a disc in there if you wanted to do any ripping. We’ve got a
single slot in this car because we have a nav system with it. Once you get a disc in there,
it begins to read it as you can see, looks it up on the Gracenot database to find the track
and all of the information, and then you're going to get to a screen that has playback as
well as the record option. Looks like this, there is your Gracenote logo, album order has
come up and you see our tracks are read out nicely as well. Now to put that on the hard
drive, very simply go to the record button on the bottom of the stack on the right. Press
that, it defaults to all tracks selected, that’s what the yellow indicators mean. If you want
to go one by one, unselect all and then select your tracks one at a time. Once you’ve got
things selected, it’s very simple right there, start recording.
Down here is your progress bar which gives you the rather demoralizing update on how
far you are in ripping that track, not the entire set of tracks. So as you can see, it’s a little
pokey. Now, if you get tired of waiting for it, you want to do something else in the
meantime and stop this, you do have those two buttons on the left, stop the recording
process or just, as it says, pause the thing and you can resume it again later. Now let’s
manage that device. Jukebox is where you go to see what you’ve ripped to your hard
drive, it’s what they call this thing. Here is your music library, tracks and here are all
your tracks. When you have a lot of them, it’s handy to go with the alphabetic indicator,
it’s up here but I don’t have that many right now so it’s easy just to go up and down and
look at all of them and you’ve got genre, album, artist or your typical iPod categories. \
Now with the library tab I'm showing you now, let’s you access what's in there and play
it, it doesn’t give you maintenance options. You’ve got to back of the screen rather
clunkily and go to options and that’s where you can manage content. So here’s where you
can edit playlists, library contacts, updates from the CD database, look at where you are
and storage in terms of what's on your drive, I don’t have much obviously. If I want to
edit a library content, take out an album, select that album and here I can go through and
delete the album or a few tracks off of it and the same can be done by artist, by genre or
of course track by track.
Again, 10 gig available on here, Ford says it’s about 2400 tracks, that’s their particular
coding and compression. That’s a quick how-to on getting music on, getting it off,
managing and accessing it on the hard drive in a 2010 Ford Taurus HSO or similar high-
end equipped Ford products.
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